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NOTES ON THE EMACS BUG TRACKER -*- outline -*-
The Emacs Bug Tracker can be found at http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/
For a list of all bugs, see http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/emacs
** When reporting a bug, to send a Cc to another address (e.g.
bug-cc-mode@gnu.org), do not just use a Cc: header.
Instead, use "X-Debbugs-CC:". This ensures the Cc address will get a
mail with the bug report number in.
** To not get acknowledgement mail from the tracker,
add an "X-Debbugs-No-Ack:" header (with any value).
** Not interested in tracker control messages (tags being set, etc)?
Discard mails matching:
^X-Emacs-PR-Message: transcript
When you close a bug, you get a message matching:
^X-Emacs-PR-Message: closed
** How to avoid multiple copies of mails.
When you reply to a bug, respect the Reply-To address, ie send mail
only to the submitter address and the numbered bug address. Do not
send mail direct to bug-gnu-emacs or emacs-pretest-bug unless you are
reporting a new bug.
** To close bug #123 (for example), send mail
To: 123-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
with a brief explanation in the body as to why the bug was closed.
** To reopen a closed bug #123:
To: control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
reopen 123
thanks
** quit|stop|thank|thanks|thankyou|thank you
On a line by itself, this tells the control server to ignore the rest of
the message.
** Bugs can be tagged in various ways (eg wontfix, patch, etc).
For a list of available tags, see:
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/Developer#tags
** To tag bug #123 (for example), send a mail of the form:
To: control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
tags 123 wontfix
thanks
Or just add the
tags 123 wontfix
thanks
at the beginning of a reply. The tag can be prefixed with +, - or =,
meaning to add (the default), remove, or reset the tags.
** To remove spam from the tracker, move it to the `spam' pseudo-package:
To: control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
reassign 123 spam
thanks
** To merge bugs:
Eg when bad replies create a bunch of new bugs for the same report.
Bugs must all be in the same state.
To: control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
merge 123 124 125 ...
** To set severity:
To: control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
severity 123 critical|grave|serious|important|normal|minor|wishlist
See http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/Developer#severities for the meanings.